A big advantage of PNG over GIF is that none of its inventors made any claim about whether the G is hard or soft! theatlantic.com/technology/a…

PNG was first issued as a W3C Recommendation in Oct. 1996, and this is the 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 document published by a very young W3C, 26 years ago 😉 Historical moment: check the related @w3c press release w3.org/Press/PNG-PR.en.html and the PNG logo designed at that time

Completely backwards compatible with millions of PNG graphics conforming to the older (2003) 2nd edition, this document addresses reported errata and adds much-requested new features such as coding-independent code points, support for EXIF #metadata and #APNG (animated PNG):

Announcing a #FirstPublicWorkingDraft of the PNG specification in its 𝟑𝐫𝐝 𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is a raster image format that was first developed in 1994 by an informal group outside W3C, as an improvement to the existing GIF and TIFF #timetogiveinput

For review: Font styles & font fallback w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/ar… Non-Latin script examples where you wouldn't want to fall back to a random font. Please send any comments by 3 Nov, as github issues (not Twitter). Link at the bottom of the article.

🔜 before this Wed. 26 October! #uiux designers and researchers, #privacy researchers and advocates, regulators / policymakers, etc.: you are invited to submit a position paper or a presentation topic to @w3c's #permissions workshop - w3.org/Privacy/permissions-w…

We're discussing blockers for devs adopting new features. Is there anything you see missing here? API docs Awareness Business case Cost of revising existing solutions Compat Data DevTools support/Debugging Framework & library support Tooling compatibility (eg bundlers) Tutorials

Notes Telecon 2022-10-19 w3.org/blog/CSS/2022/10/20/m… css-values-3, mediaqueries, css-contain-2, css-overflow, css-nesting

CSS Values and Units Level 4 updated WD w3.org/blog/CSS/2022/10/19/c… small fixes and closing in on CR

Notes Telecon 2022-10-12 w3.org/blog/CSS/2022/10/12/m… css-text-4, selectors, css-ruby, css-values, css-nesting, css-tables

The @csswg GitHub repo is at github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts #smashingConf

The workshop will be held on 5–6 December 22, in #Munich, 🇩🇪. Attendance is free for all invited participants and is open to the public, whether or not W3C members. Check how you can participate: w3.org/Privacy/permissions-w…

🆕 This hybrid #W3CWorkshop will look at ways in which user agents can (or can't) seek a user’s permission and when that #permission can be inferred or bypassed #privacy #security #usability Submit a position statement or presentation topic before 26 Oct.! w3.org/Privacy/permissions-w…

Watch the 4 🎬 from the #w3cdevs2022 meetup playlist! youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…

This WoT Community Group Meetup event is open to everyone! Digital Twins is one of, maybe the most, demanded topic and this will mark the first event within the WoT Community where it is brought into focus 👀

Missed our webinar with @FIDOAlliance & @W3C? Watch the recording on-demand to learn more about their joints efforts to advance web #payment #security: bit.ly/3MiaiIG

cc @tidoust